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Do Emigrants Self-Select Along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs … also share more gender-egalitarian views, although the effect only holds among the young (aged 15 to 30), among single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929247
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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination
Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015
be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011648
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2017
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … managing motels. We develop a model of social interactions where non-work relationships facilitate the acquisition of sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965722
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Gender and Racial Biases : Evidence from Child Adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2021
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316268
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Historical Antisemitism, Ethnic Specialization, and Financial Development
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2017
For centuries, Jews in Europe have specialized in financial services. At the same time, they have been the victims of historical antisemitism on the part of the Christian majority. We find that present-day financial development is lower in German counties where historical antisemitism was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947353
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018280
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Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - 2021
separately with eight indicators of genetic (‘somatic’) distance between country-pairs. These indicators work equally well at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315782
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Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor
Spring, Eva; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2013
separately with eight indicators of genetic (‘somatic’) distance between country-pairs. These indicators work equally well at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659179
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074410
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699659